Improvement in wash-boilers



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UNITED STATES GEORGE HALL, OF MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASH-BOILERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,353, dated March 5, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEO. HALL, of Morgantown, in the county of Monongalia and in the State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in IVash-Boiler 5 and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the4 construction and arrangement of a wash-boiler, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains t0 make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, which represents a longitudinal vertical section of my boiler.

A represents a boiler of any suitable shape and dimensions, inside of which is a false bottom, B, provided around its edges with a per- From the bottom B rise two conical or tapering tubes, which are made in sections D1 D2 D3, each section lapping over the section below, and the lower sections D1 attached to the bottom. The lower sections D1 are, at the base, connected bya perforated tube, El, running on top of the bottom, thereby steaming the clothes at the bottom of the boiler. The sections D2 are also connected by a perforated pipe, E2, running in the center of the boiler for the purpose of separating and sa-turating the clothes with water and steam. The upper sections D3 are, at their upper ends,

connected by a perforated pipe, E, which extends beyond the tubes at the ends of the boiler.

As soon as ebullition has commenced the heat and steam force the water up and through the tubes, permeatin g the clothing from the lower and center cross-tubes. The water emitted from the upper cross-tube E3 on its downward passage carries with it the dirt loosened by the action of the heat and steam on the clothes, thereby cleansing the same, when it again performs continuously the saine operation. After this operation is completed the clothes are taken out of the boiler and subjected to a rinsing process, by which they are entirely cleansed.

The advantages this boiler has over others for the same purpose is that the heated water and steam are introduced through the clothes at the bottom and center of the boiler by the cross-tubes.

The washing by this process is accomplished with but a small amount of manual labor.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by- An attachment for wash-boilers, consisting January, 1872.

GEORGE HALL.

Witnesess:

J. J. FITCH, J. P. Fi'rcn. 

